CAMPING TRIP UP SUDBURY RIVER 
1892 
July 17 
Li* 4 p * M. I stsmted up river aLone in my "Stella 
Maris" canoe, taking my tent and camping outfit. The wind 
had just before hauled into the south-west so that I had 
no chance to sail until I reached Clam Shell Hill. A 
Red-shouldered Hawk was soaring over the French farm and 
a Marsh Hawk beating Heath’s meadow. Both were adult males. 
I heard few birds until I passed Heath’s Bridge 
between which and Fairhaven I noted Robins, Red-wings, 
Towhees (3), Swamp Sparrows, Black-throated Green Warblers, 
a Bluebird, a Tanager, a Savanna Sparrow, a Quail and a 
Red-winged Blackbird, all singing freely. 
Landed at Lee’s Cliff and drew my canoe out of 
Birds 
water and into the grassy opening at the foot of the cliff. 
, Here I made the following brief notes* 
singing at & 
Lee’s Cliff 
at sunset 
7.30 
P. M. 
A Pine Warbler and Solitary Vireo singing 
in the woods on the Cliff, a Chestnut-sided 
Warbler (only a few times; in the alders 
near me, Song and Swamp Sparrows along the 
edge of the meadow. 
7.51 
it 
n 
Last Swamp Sparrow. A Cat-bird and Veery still 
singing. The Veery closes the concert of 
diurnal birds. 
8.00 
ii 
it 
First Whippoorwill. 
8.05 
ii 
ii 
No Frogs as yet. I hear only crickets and an 
occasional Whippoorwill now. 
• 
9.00 
ii 
n 
Bull and Green Frogs be&in and sing at intervals 
as long as I am awake. 
At 8.30 a large and most brilliant meteor shot across 
Meteor 
startles fish the Bay from south-east to north-west, apparently very low down, 
I could hear the splash of dozens of startled fishes as it passed 
